Max’s ‘Mom’ realised that she didn’t have many nice photos of her and Max together and is capturing those precious moments now – but she reminded us all to “seize the moment” and get more ‘ Together Pictures ‘ with our humans. I am very lucky because I have a maniac camera human who has to take a million pictures of every small thing every day – so I have quite a few pictures with my humans already!

So this post is dedicated to Max - here are some ‘Together’ pictures of me and my special human, Hsin-Yi:

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The first time we met…

(4 weeks - look, my brothers are trying to climb into Hsin-Yi’s lap too! I was the first of all the puppies in my litter to get my very own human and I think they were all jealous!)

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The last time Hsin-Yi could pick me up…

(9 weeks – 10kg/22lbs)

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Graduating from puppy class!

(16 weeks)

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Helping in the garden…

(4 months)

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On Hsin-Yi’s 30th birthday…

(5 months – Hsin-Yi waited 30yrs for her dream of having a dog!)

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All grown up now!

(14 months)

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Sharing a hug…

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Having a nap together…

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Winning our 1st ‘doggie dancing’ trophy…

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Enjoying a girlie moment together…

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Exploring the ‘City of Sails’ …

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…or just ‘hanging out’…

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Maybe a spot of modelling…

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…and a TV appearance or two…

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…but quiet cuddles at home too!

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Being a lap dog…

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Posing for Christmas photos…

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Doing the ’beach babe’ thing…

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And sharing a joke!

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But most of all, those special, quiet moments together…

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And here is Hsin-Yi’s favourite photo of us together:

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I hope you will join us  and post some ‘Together Pictures’ of you and your human – in honour of Max…and if you haven’t got many, as Max’s ’Mom’ said – seize the moment and get some more now!  

* For all those whose humans say that there is no-one to take the photos - Hsin-Yi says “Use the self-timer!” A lot of our photos are taken with self-timer and the mad rush to run back into the right spot always gets a natural smile!

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* Hsin-Yi is going away tomorrow to attend a conference with Dr. Ian Dunbar back in Auckland and she will be away until next week – so I won’t have anyone to help me visit your blogs – sorry! I will catch up with you all when she gets back.

And guess what? Instead of kennels, I will be going to stay with a pet sitter this time, as Paul works such long hours and is on-call on weekends, so I would be alone for too long at home…but this lady lives on a big farm where I can run free and she has a Great Dane too so I will have a friend to play with! In fact, I already had an overnight ”trial stay” a few weeks ago to make sure that I was happy with the arrangement and I loved playing with Harley the Great Dane – so I will tell you all about that when I get back!

I also still have lots of ‘catch-up posts’ to do, like telling you about my “doggie dancing camp”, my visit to Nudgee Beach and the latest tricks I’m learning - I always seem to be having adventures faster than I can post about them!

The Human Pups & me at my 6th birthday party back in Auckland last year...

Remember my friend, DizzyMum, who brought her Human Pups to my birthday party back in Auckland?

Well, she and her family are actually from Brisbane and they have just moved back here!

I am so happy because it is so nice to have friends in a strange new place…

…and I love her Human Pups because they always give me lots of cuddles and play fun games with me!

And guess what? They invited me and my humans to their place for my 1st Aussie BBQ!

There were lots of meaty yummies that smelled really delicious…!

But while we were waiting for them to cook, the Human Pups played some games with me. We played football (my favourite!)…

…and then we played some Modelling ‘coz the Human Pups wanted to get some photos with me…and you know how good I am at that! Hee! Hee!  After all, I think I have the most “camera-mad” human in the world! Hsin-Yi has been using the Camera Machine on me every day from the moment I arrived home at 8 weeks!

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Here are some of the shots that Hsin-Yi got – what do you think? Don’t we look sweet together?

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Hsin-Yi was very proud of me because I was very good with the Human Pups and let them climb on me and hug me and do anything they liked.

She is always a bit worried because I don’t have any human pups of my own and when I was a puppy, none of their friends had any either - so Hsin-Yi is always worried that I might not have got enough socialisation with them.

But she did make a big effort – like she always got nice human pups in the street to pat me and feed me treats and she took me to sit near playgrounds so I could get used to children running and screaming around me. But still, I have not had a lot of chances to play with human pups and have them touching me everywhere and hugging me and stuff, so Hsin-Yi was really pleased with how patient and tolerant I was.

Of course, it’s easy ’coz these are my favourite Human Pups and I love getting cuddles from them! They even got me a special Christmas present – a tug toy! – and Hsin-Yi said they could give me treats as long as I did something to earn them. (That’s easy! Here, do you want to shake my paw? )

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After we finished playing, I went back to check on the BBQ…mmm, looks like it’s almost done!

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Of course, the humans got to eat first…but I did get a lot of yummy leftovers (sorry, there is no picture ‘coz I gobbled it up too quickly! )

And then afterwards, it was time for more cuddles…But wait! What’s that over there? What do you think the little Human Girl Pup is showing me?

There’s a kitty-cat in the house!  Her name was Samantha but although I tried to be friendly and wagged my tail and gave her a play bow when I saw her, she didn’t like me at all! She hissed at me and made a scary yowly sound so I kept a respectful distance!

Much better to be getting more cuddles from the Human Pups!